Sustainability and feasibility assessment
iPRACS groups offer services in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and early-stage feasibility assessment
LCA
With life cycle assessment (LCA) we can detect and quantify all the environmental impacts (carbon footprint, water consumption, etc.) associated with all the stages of a product's life, from the raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use and disposal.
The iPRACS group performs LCAs of ongoing and future chemical and biochemical processes and materials on different geographical scales. We can evaluate all (or part) of the environmental impacts weather the production is already established and your product commercialized or if it is still in a planning/development stage.
We can also determine how the modification/inclusion/exclusion of certain procedures will affect the overall environmental footprint of your product or process. Moreover, we are able to analyze how the inclusion of your product in the market will affect the overall environmental footprint taking into account how it will affect the consumption of substitute and complementary products.
Please contact Prof. Pieter Billen (pieter.billen@uantwerpen.be) to obtain more information about this service.
Decision modelling
When evaluating a new technology or comparing two products or processes there are several criteria that we must take into account. It is of great importance to look not only at the economic aspects (potential costs, potential revenues, investments costs, etc.) but also at the environmental impacts of alternative processing pathways. By integrating techno-economic assessment (TEA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and using different multi criteria analysis and/or multi objective optimization techniques the iPRACS group can assess and potentially rank the different technologies, products or processes. Moreover, it is possible to find the optimal parameters for your process according to the environmental and economic criteria.
Please contact Prof. Pieter Billen (pieter.billen@uantwerpen.be) to obtain more information about this service.